Ch 26 · Lesson 24Esperanto · Chapter 26 · Lesson 24 · Themed review
Esperanto rete
Website, email, download, mobile. The internet named by compounding roots the language already had, and the two open projects where Esperanto punches far above its size.
Practise this lesson
16-word session
A quick mix of exercises - recognise, recall, type and build each word. Miss one and it comes back round until it sticks.
Worth knowing
Retmesaĝo, poŝtelefono: the internet, built from old roots
A national language meeting the internet tends to borrow the English word wholesale. Esperanto mostly does not need to, because it can compound the roots it has had since 1887. This session is the proof.
Net, pocket, pour
is a net, the kind you catch things in. Everything online grows from it. A is a website: - plus --, the place on the net. A is an email: a net-message, two roots stuck together. To browse is i, with the shapeless -um- doing its usual job of "something to do with this".
is a mobile: (pocket) plus . A pocket-telephone, which is precisely what it is.
is to download, and here the image is liquid. is to pour something loose, like sand or grain. - is out of: you pour the file out of the net. Its partner is , to upload: -, to, and you pour the file onto the server.
The rest arrives as international roots: (built from komputi, to compute, plus --, the tool: the computing tool), , , , . And , to chat, is an old root that needed no update at all.
Where the language lives online
Esperanto is unusually well represented on the open web for its size. In October 2026 the Esperanto Vikipedio counted more than 389,000 articles. And on Tatoeba, the open database of example sentences and their translations, Esperanto held 822,668 sentences: the fourth-largest language there, after English, Russian and Italian, and ahead of German and French.
Both are edited by volunteers. If you can a sentence, you can add one.
Put it together
. - I sent you an email with the address of the website.
, . - Download the file, and upload your answer.
per . - She chats with friends on her mobile.
Sources
- Vikipedio (2026) Vikipedio: Ĉefpaĝo. Available at: https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedio:%C4%88efpa%C4%9Do (Accessed: 7 October 2026).
- Tatoeba (2026) Number of sentences per language. Available at: https://tatoeba.org/en/stats/sentences_by_language (Accessed: 7 October 2026).